Baguio guns for Guinness with largest gathering of golfers

Baguio City is just one golf tournament away from bagging a Guinness World Record as the historic Camp John Hay and the Baguio Country Club hope to gather the biggest number of golfers in a single event for the 59 th annual Fil-Am International Golf Tournament starting November 19.
"The purpose of this event is to invite people from all over the world, and to let them enjoy the entertainment derived from it," said Jack Perez, golf director of Camp John Hay, of the tournament that ends December 6.
While some 1 ,200 golfers participated in last year's golf tournament, this year's event is expected to draw a far larger crowd, which according to locals, is a welcome boost to Baguio's tourism industry.
"This will draw lots of attention. The participants of the tournament are mostly from the Asia-Pacific region," said Anthony de Leon, general manager of the Baguio Country Club.
Perez, meanwhile, had this to say on the large number of players who joined last year's tournament: "The Fil-Am tournament held the most number of players in one tournament that was consecutively played for two weeks."
According to de Leon, the Fil-Am tournament is the "longest and largest" in the amateur class.
"No golf tournament in the world has ever beaten that record," he said.
Meanwhile, police are determined to make it certain that the event stays perfect for the tee-off, especially with the sizeable crowd expected to attend the event.
"We will give maximum security for our visitors. We have more than 400 policemen, and we expect to deploy one-third of them," said Superintendent David Mariano, Baguio's deputy police chief for operations.

via abs-cbnNEWS.com